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Thread #59418   Message #1862349
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
18-Oct-06 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Well it's either got to be Queen Anne, or Queen Elizibeth, or maybe Mary Frog was well established by the Napoleonic era, so Victora is out. I didn't know that was the origin of the phrase.

My dictionary lists it as 19 century, from the eating of frogs.

Anybody feel like chasing down obscure words?